Hope the Xavier University bill is finally tabled and passed in the Odisha assembly
July 25th, 2011
Following is an excerpt from a report in Business Standard.
After giving its nod to four privately promoted universities in the state, the Orissa government is set to table the Xavier University Bill in the ensuing monsoon session of the assembly.
Earlier, the state assembly had passed bills for setting up of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar University, Vedanta University, Icfai University and Centurion University of Technology & Management.
"We are making efforts to introduce the Xavier University Bill in the monsoon session of the assembly. All problems relating to the establishment of the university will be sorted out,” said state Chief Secretary B K Patnaik.
P T Joseph, director, Xavier Institute of Management-Bhubaneswar (XIMB) said, “We want the status of a unitary university. Our proposed second university is coming up on 35 acres of land at Jatani in Khurda district. Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation of Orissa (Idco) is in the process of building a compound wall which will be completed soon. Then, we will start construction work on this campus in August.”
Joseph said, initially, XIMB will invest Rs 10-12 crore in the current financial year on the second campus.
While the university will function from XIMB’s existing campus in the city, the rural management course will be shifted to the new campus. Besides the flagship Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM), the new campus will offer courses like healthcare management, education management, human resource management and a doctoral programme in management for working executives.
… XIMB also has plans to set up a campus at Bolangir for the rural management course and a B-school at Sambalpur but details are yet to be finalized.
If this happens this will be the first Xavier University in India.
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1. Dr KSB Nayar | August 10th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
I am glad XIMB under the able and dynamic leadership of Professor PT Joseph is embarking on the ambitious mission of establishing the Xavier University in the near future. Hearty congratulations!
As an individual actively involved in building institutions of higher learning in management over the past 40 years, I wish to offer a couple of suggestions for his consideration. First, please access and leverage (if not adequately addressed already) the existing expertise and experience available across the country in the higher education space and identify the right USP in consonance with the local reality and needs; second, please network with likeminded institutions for transfer of intellectual capital with focus on results in near-term and long-term; and three, please prioritise and phase-out a credible basket of activities in sync with needs of the environment expected to be catered to by the University while consciously taking stock of the existing and planned resource based in order to ensure that they are spread too thin over the entire spectrum intended to be covered. Hope the suggestions will be taken in proper perspective. Best wishes, once again!
Dr KSB Nayar, PhD FBIM (London) MDP (IIMA) LLB
Former Director of Business Schools (FIMS & SKIPS)
Hon Professor Albert Schweizer International University